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Wellington Ireland and Peelers
The patience of the Irish was coming to an end. Under Daniel O'Connell they demanded Catholic emancipation and Home Rule for Ireland. O'Connell stood for election in County Clare and was successful but the law said no Catholic could hold public office. The choice was Catholic emancipation or Irish revolution. In April 1829 Catholic emancipation was carried.
In 1829 law and order in England became organized under the Metropolitan Police Force. Robert Peel set up a commissioner of police and an assistant commissioner in an office in Scotland Yard. It was the first of many such forces set up throughout the country under Chief Constables.
Duke of Wellington |
ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF WELLINGTON (1769-1852)- First Duke of Wellington
- Irish aristocrat, soldier, diplomat, MP and Prime Minister (1828-1830)
- Led the 33rd Foot in India in 1797
- Defeated the Indian leader Tippoo Sahib at Mysore and some would say this was his finest generalship, more so that the famous campaigns in the Iberian Peninsular and at Waterloo
- Elected MP for Rye in 1806
- Chief secretary for Ireland (1807-1809)
- Defeated the French in the Peninsular War and most famously, Napoleon at Waterloo
- Became Prime Minister in 1828
- Forced to resign after a technical defeat in the House but one which reflected opposition to his policies on Catholic emancipation and Parliamentary reform
- Briefly caretaker PM in 1834, he retired in 1846, but two years later commanded the London militia against the Chartists demonstrations
The Duke of Wellington was the last Prime Minister to fight a serious duel, an act supported by the King who said he was all in favour of a gentleman upholding a code of honour.
EXTRACT FROM PEEL'S PLAN FOR THE METROPOLITAN POLICE
Now the out-parishes - such places as Brentford, Twickenham, Isleworth, Hounslow, and so forth - in all which the police at present is scandalous, will fell, and very justly, that if the new police system succeeds in London, it will injure them, by driving a fresh stock of thieves from the heart of the metropolis into the environs, and it will be a great object to me, as well as to them, to devise some mode of improving their police.
 
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| 1803 | The Napoleonic Wars begin
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| 1792 | French Revolutionary Wars begin
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| 1793 | Britain enters the Wars
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| 1801 | Pitt the Younger resigns
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| 1802 | Napoleonic Wars begin
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| 1805 | Nelson is victorious but dies at Trafalgar
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| 1810 | George III becomes insane
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| 1815 | Battle of Waterloo end Napoleonic Wars
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| 1820 | George III dies
George IV becomes king
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| 1821 | George IV excludes Queen Caroline from the coronation
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| 1822 | Castlereagh commits suicide
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| 1823 | O'Connell forms the Catholic Association
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| 1828 | Wellington becomes Prime Minister
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| 1829 | Metropolitan Police is formed
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| 1830 | George IV dies
William IV becomes king
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